July 17, 2008,
New Media Age
80% Of iPhone users go on mobile internet
e iPhone users are the highest percentage of mobile internet users, with 80% using the device to browse, compared with 32% of all other smartphone...
July 17, 2008,
PBS
Digging Deeper::Your Guide to the iPhone
From time to time, Iâ ll give an overview of one broad MediaShift topic, annotated with online resources and plenty of tips. The idea is to help you understand the topic, learn the jargon, and take...
July 16, 2008,
The New York Times
Hold the Calls, and Ascend to Rock God Status
Guitar Hero has turned millions of people into rock stars with plastic guitars. But can they shred on a Nokia? As of May, Guitar Hero's mobile version ranked ninth among top-selling...
July 11, 2008,
Business Week
The iPhone is Stimulating the Mobile Web
Market researcher M:Metrics published some interesting numbers today that confirm that the iPhone is helping to create a surge in usage of the mobile Internet—and challenging Nokia in the smartphone...
July 11, 2008,
Mobile Europe
80 percent of iPhone users in France, Germany and the UK browse the mobile web, says research
US research company, comScore, has reported that iPhone users surpass all others in mobile media usage, with more than 80 percent of iPhone users in France, Germany and the UK using the device to browse news and information on the mobile Web, compared to 32 percent of other smartphone...
July 10, 2008,
Forbes.com
iPhone Fans Score
BURLINGAME, CALIF. - Score one for Canada's geekiest citizens. Bowing to pressure from iPhone fans, Canadian wireless carrier Rogers Communications (nyse: - - ) moved to give Apple (nasdaq: - - ) fans lining up for the new iPhone Friday a special offer on the price of Internet usage for the latest version..
July 8, 2008,
Wireless Week
A Picture Is Worth 1,000 Messages
OK, maybe that’s a bit of exaggeration, but M:Metrics is seeing a definite uptick in pictures accompanying messages. comScore today released the latest figures from its M:Metrics Benchmark Study which reports that photo messaging from mobile phones has grown 60% in the United States over the...
July 8, 2008,
Mobile Entertainment
MMS usage up 60 per cent in US
That's according to stats from Comscore M:Metrics, which show European usage up 16 per...
June 19, 2008,
Mobile Marketer
Paramount, Universal Studios to serve ads on mobile white space
Paramount Pictures and Universal Studios will serve graphical ads to the white space on mobile phone screens. Digital Sidebar will power the advertisements via its Sidebar platform, which delivers ads onto the white space of devices before and after calls, and in incoming and outgoing SMS...
June 18, 2008,
The New York Times
Navigating the New World of Cellphones, as the Options Pile Up
It’s your cellphone. You should be able to do what you want with it. The next-generation iPhones will be available next month and operate the much faster 3G wireless...
June 16, 2008,
Forbes.com
My Phone, My Game Machine
Mobile games have long had a bad reputation as little more than a simple diversion while you're waiting in, say, a grocery checkout queue.
June 16, 2008,
Forbes.com
Samsung Goes For Olympic Gold
Samsung has Olympic-sized ambitions. This summer, it's partnering with the Beijing Olympics to achieve them. The Korean electronics maker racked up $103 billion in revenue last year and is the top maker globally of LCD...
June 10, 2008,
Les Echos
Apple relance l'iPhone en cassant les prix
Les opérateurs mobiles qui vendront l'iPhone 3G ne verseront plus un pourcentage de la facture de leurs abonnés à Apple. En France, le prix du nouveau téléphone mobile de la marque à la pomme sera inférieur à l'actuel car il sera subventionné par...
June 10, 2008,
RCR Wireless News
VZW+Alltel: Content challenges ahead
Advertisement The sparse, rural areas that AlltelCommunications L.L.C.'s network covers and the demographics it serves lead some to assume Alltel would have relatively little data uptake, but the numbers tell a different...
May 29, 2008,
MocoNews.net
Mobile Web Becoming the Weekend Web
Is there a difference between the mobile web and the wired web? According to a Businessweek article thatâ s dug through the latest comScore figures looking at the top web sites on both platforms, the mobile web is fast becoming what the magazine has dubbed â the weekend...
May 29, 2008,
Boston Globe
ComScore rises after $43.3M M:Metrics purchase
NEW YORK --ComScore Inc. shares rose Thursday after the Internet data analysis company said it paid $44.3 million in cash plus options for M:Metrics...
May 29, 2008,
The New York Times
ComScore Swallows M:Metrics
M:Metrics, a Seattle company that measures activity in the mobile industry, has been acquired by comScore, one of the top trackers of Internet and digital-market...
May 28, 2008,
MocoNews
ComScore Buys Mobile Research Firm M:Metrics For $44.3 Million In Cash
Well-known Internet measurement firm comScore said today that it has acquired M:Metrics, a leader in the mobile measurement business, for $44.3 million in cash and the issuance of approximately 50,000 options to purchase shares of comScore (NSDQ: SCOR) common...
May 28, 2008,
Digital Media Net
comScore Acquires M:Metrics
RESTON, Va. , May 28 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- comScore, Inc. (Nasdaq: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today announced the acquisition of M:Metrics,...
May 26, 2008,
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung - FAZ
Das Dilemma der Mobilfunker
Den einst wachstumsverwöhnten Mobilfunkbetreibern bricht in immer stärkerem Maße das ursprüngliche Geschäftsmodell auseinander. Schnell fallende Preise sorgen in fast allen Märkten in Europa für sinkende...
May 23, 2008,
Wireless Week
U.S. Mobile Web Users Love Craigslist
According to the latest report from M:Metrics, social networking and Internet commerce are compelling U.S. smartphone users to spend an average of 4 hours and 38 minutes per month browsing the mobile...
May 21, 2008,
Silicon Alley
Mobile Web Surfers Obsessed With Craigslist
We already knew that smartphone owners were about four times as likely to use the Web on their phones as people with "dumb" phones. What we didn't know: What they were looking...
May 21, 2008,
The Times
Microsoft launches advertisements on mobiles in battle with Google
Microsoft has opened a new front in the battle with Google, the search engine group, in the increasingly ferocious struggle for control of the online services...
May 17, 2008,
Financial Times
Chipmaker's TV connection
Hopes of creating a UK broadcast network capable of serving up television programmes on mobile phones took a step forward on Friday.Qualcomm, one of the world's leading manufacturers of microchips for mobiles, emerged as the successful buyer of radio spectrum that could be used to put live TV on...
May 16, 2008,
Silicon Alley
Qualcomm's Mobile TV Service To UK? Why Not?
Mobile chipmaker Qualcomm (QCOM) has won a slice of wireless spectrum in the U.K., Britain's Office of Communications announced today. The spectrum is suitable for mobile TV, wireless broadband, and satellite...
May 15, 2008,
RCR Wireless News
Mobile ad space promising, but fledgling
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. Calling mobile the most personal platform to date and one that advertisers need to capitalize on soon to keep pace with the rapidly evolving convergence of mobile and advertising, Brian Cowley, president and CEO of Ad Infuse, told a small audience at the Mobile Ad Degree conference...
March 28, 2008,
Biz Journals
M:Metrics gains ground in mobile tracking niche
M:Metrics Inc., a Seattle company that measures the way people use their mobile phones to go online, is quietly ramping up its business. The startup, which has an office in Pioneer Square, has built up a roster of 200 clients, including major wireless carriers, handset manufacturers and media...
March 23, 2008,
Washington Post
Mobile Ads Proliferate Despite Concerns: Mobile advertising is growing fast and maturing despite questions and issues with its use, industry participants say.
Advertisers are just beginning to get their feet wet in mobile advertising, but there's a lot of splashing going on, according to some people in the...
March 18, 2008,
Bits - New York Times Blog
iPhone Users are Mobile Web Junkies
By Brad Stone The last thing anyone wants to do is to give iPhone users another chance to crow about their phone’s slick interface and seamless connection to the...